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The king and the wise guys, 2021 edition.

2021 Reads

2021 top reads:

more 2021 reads:

of the favorites:

most beautiful: Just Mercy

most gripping: Educated

most fascinating: Lady in Waiting

most sad (and also very well done): The Zookeeper's Wife

most notable during a pandemic: Pale Rider

Christmas

Christmas with littles is best.

 

seed paper packages tied up with string...

(Christmas gifts from Lauren Mae)

Birthday Special

There's a new bakery down the road... and I took the opportunity to make a little visit 

recently in honor of my birthday.

I can't wait to go back for a picnic with friends.

the middle of a story

"When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion; a dark roaring, a blindness, a wreckage of shattered glass and splintered wood; like a house in a whirlwind, or else a boat crushed by the icebergs or swept over the rapids, and all aboard powerless to stop it. It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else."

-Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace        

 

Festive

 

Friend Becky spruced up our office space with a little Christmas deskoration :)

Working Remotely

I enjoyed working from Joel's remote office one day last week.

His setup is pretty swell.

before and after

a clean desk always feels better

story time with aunties

The world of picture books is vast and wonderful.